KING SORROW by Joe Hill

KING SORROW Joe Hill (joehillfiction.com) Headline (headline.co.uk) £25 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop It’s 1989 and Arthur Oakes is in his third year at Rackham College, with his best friend Donovan “Van” McBride and Van’s twin sister, Donna, Allison Shiner and Colin Wren. His mother is incarcerated in Vermont’s House of Correction […]

RAZORBLADE TEARS by S. A. Cosby

RAZORBLADE TEARS S. A. Cosby Headline (headline.co.uk) £18.99 Isaac “Ike” Randolph is in mourning following the violent death of his son, Isiah. Ike has much to mourn, given the strained nature of their relationship, caused by Ike’s inability to accept that his son was gay. Now, having been gunned down with his husband, it’s too […]

COMPETITION: WIN 1 of 5 copies of THE SILENCED by Stephen Lloyd Jones

THE SILENCED Stephen Llloyd Jones (www.stephenlloydjones.com) Headline (www.headline.co.uk) £7.99 To celebrate the launch of Stephen Lloyd Jones’ latest novel, The Silenced, those lovely people at Headline have given us 5 copies of the book to give away. To enter, simply leave a comment on this post before midnight on Sunday 22nd April 2018. Unfortunately, this […]

An Interview with K.J. Howe

Name: K.J. Howe Author of: THE FREEDOM BROKER (2017) On the web: www.kjhowe.com On Twitter: @KJHoweAuthor KJ Howe is the Executive Director of Thillerfest and a three-time Daphne du Maurier winner. Thank you, Kim, for taking the time to chat with us. The Freedom Broker is a novel firmly set in the real-world. It feels like a […]

THE FREEDOM BROKER by K.J. HOWE

THE FREEDOM BROKER K.J. Howe (www.kjhowe.com) Headline (www.headline.co.uk) £8.99 Eight-year-old Thea Paris watched as her older brother was kidnapped in front of her. Twenty years later, driven by the feeling of helplessness that still haunts her, Thea is one of the most respected and elite kidnap and ransom consultants in the world. So, when her […]

THE COPPER PROMISE by Jen Williams

THE COPPER PROMISE Jen Williams (sennydreadful.co.uk) Headline (www.headline.co.uk) £13.99 For the fifth title in the Hodderscape Review Project, we move into the realms of fantasy with the debut novel from Jen Williams, The Copper Promise, released this month by Headline. Don’t forget to check in to the Review Project site to find out what my […]

SEASON TO TASTE by Natalie Young

SEASON TO TASTE or HOW TO EAT YOUR HUSBAND Natalie Young Tinder Press (www.tinderpress.co.uk) £12.99 She cleaned the nails with a nailbrush, rinsing in the sink; and then she brushed the skin with an oil brush to give it a good crisp. She rubbed all over the hand with olive oil and salt and then […]

The 2013 Round-Up

And so, once more, to the end of the year and the requisite retrospective of my reading habits over the past twelve months here at Reader Dad. Regular visitors and Twitter followers will know that 2013 has been a year full of ups and downs (more downs, unfortunately, than ups) for me, what with five […]

THE STRING DIARIES by Stephen Lloyd Jones

THE STRING DIARIES Stephen Lloyd Jones (www.stephenlloydjones.com) Headline (www.headline.co.uk) £14.99 In 1979 Charles Meredith meets Nicole Dubois, a Frenchwoman on the run from what he at first takes to be a fantasy: a man over 100 years old that Nicole claims has been hunting her family for most of the past century, a man with […]

THE SILENT WIFE by A.S.A. Harrison

THE SILENT WIFE A.S.A. Harrison (asaharrison.com) Headline (www.headline.co.uk) £12.99 Jodi and Todd have been together for over 20 years. Todd, a self-made man, is prone to dalliance while Jodi, a part-time psychologist, has always been happy to turn a blind eye in order to maintain the status quo. This time, things are different. This time […]